Stanley Custer

Alaska Native, 7-year-old male Stanley Custer left behind a quiet village and a shaken circle of playmates on March 4, 2015, in Shungnak, Alaska. In the late evening, children playing unsupervised inside a home found a pistol they believed was a toy. In the rough-and-tumble rhythm of their game, a small hand squeezed the trigger. A single bullet struck the 7-year-old in the head. Adults rushed, the village clinic took him in, and a medevac was summoned. Before the aircraft could arrive, the tiny ...

Shungnak boy killed by shot from pistol children were playing with

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